Improved horse-collar



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Y .0. K. MARSHALL, OFVNEVV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent-No. 85,747, dated January12, 1869; antedated January r2,1869.

To all lwhom it 'may concern Be it known that I, C. K. MARSHALL, of NewOrleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and theletters of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification,in which- Figure l is a plan view of my improved collar with trace-clipand rein-eye7 attached. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with hamesattached. Fig. 3 is a sectional view at the line w Fig. l. Fig. 4 is asectional view at the line y y, Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, light, elastic collar,one that will not chafe or gall the horse, and which can readily be madeto exactly conform to the contour of the neck and shoulders of theanimal.

The nature of my invention simply consists in constructing the collarhollow and of the semi-shell-shape form. The collar is rendered muchlighter and its elasticity greatly increased by constructing the sainewith numerous perforations. These may be either circular, oblong, or ofany other form that the taste of the manufacturer may suggest. Withinthe concavities of the collar-plates are secured the rein-eye and alsothe trace-clip. These may be secured by independent bearin gs, orattached to a hames-bow,77 in the ordinary manner, in which case thehames are permanently secured to the collar.

A collar constructed in accordance with my invention is susceptible ofthe highest degree of ornamentation, and is equally applicable, itmatters not whether designed for the purposes of pleasure or intendedfor the use of the draft-horse.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willnow proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the collar-plate, and is hollow and semishellshape in form. Thesurface may be plain, as shown in Fig. 2, or perforated, as shown at a ain Fig. l. The objects of these perforations, which may be of anydesired shape, is to render the collar lighter, and also to add to itselasticity.

The plates A A may be made of any metallic substance7 either cast orsheet iron, of wood, gutta-percha, hard rubber, or any other compositionthat may be found suitable for the purpose.

Vhen the plates A A are made of iron or other cast metal, the castingsare made in the ordinary manner; when of sheet metal, they are swaged,struck up, either hot or cold, or formed with dies orin molds. The metalform may then be covered with paint or gilded, or coated with hardrubber or its equivalents. When the plates A A are made of wood they maybe carved and steamed or swaged into the desired form.

When the use of hames is dispensed with the plates A A are provided witheyes B B, by means of which the collar-plates are united together bymeans of suitable straps or other convenient means; or, instead ofhaving duplicate plates, the collar may be made in 011e piece.

When the hames C are used the bows of the same are permanently securedby rivets brazed, or other equivalent device, within the cavity of theplate A, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. When so arranged the eyes B B arenot at tached to the plates A A, but to the ends of the hames-bow, asshown at c c. To the hames O C, I attach, by means of rivets d and '0,or other equivalent means, the vtrace-clip D and rein-eye E.

When it is desired to dispense with the use of the hames the trace-clipF and rein-eye G are securely attached by means of plates f and g to thecollar-plate A. These plates f and g have their attachment-rivets, orother equivalents, within the concavity and to the sides of the plate A.

These plates may be highly ornamented and enriched with any appropriatedesign or figure that taste may suggest.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

l. The semi-shell-shape plates A A, either with or without theperforations a., when the seme are made substantially as described, asand for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the semi-shell A and haines-bow C, when the latteris permanently secured Within the concavity of the former, substantiallyas described as and for the purpose specied.

3. Securing Within the coneavity ofthe se1nishelLshape collar abraceelip and rein-eye, Whether the same are attached to it harnesboW orsecured by independent bearings, substantially as described, as and forthe purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subseribing witnesses.

C. K. MARSHALL. Vitnesses:

EDWIN J AMES, J oHN S. HoLLINGsHEAD.

